25 Of 80 Miles Open At Bike Park

July 8, 2005

By Bump Diamond
Man About Town

    Here is a picture of the face of the Mammoth Mountain Bike Park, and you don’t have to feel like a dumbkopf for asking the question:
    That’s a bike park? ---------------------->
    Well, yeah it is, except that Dave Geirman and his crew can’t blow out the whole danged mountain, can they?
    As of today, according to Mammoth Mountain communications director Joani Lynch, only 25 miles of 80-plus miles of single track have opened because of the heavy snow we got this past winter.
    The gondola still isn’t taking bikes to the top, so the access is all at the bottom of 203, by the Village, via bike shuttle, which ain’t all that bad.
    As for me myself, I ventured out onto the Juniper trails today over by Chair 15 and I have to say they blew my mind, they were that good. Remember how a couple of years ago you had to criss-cross your way across the heinous drainage ditches to get outta there alive? Last year, the crew put in a new trail that dives down along Stormy’s Creek, next to Camp High Sierra, and it’s a beautiful thing.
    No word, really, on when the top is going to open, but as anyone with eyes can see, it won’t be for a while yet.